Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the Swedish Netflix limited series Clark. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Mikael Åkerfeldt who is best known as the primary songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of the metal band Opeth. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, May 5 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Physical versions are set to come out on July 22 and is available for pre-order here (CD version) and here (vinyl edition). Clark is co-written and directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Lords of Chaos) and stars Bill Skarsgård, Adam Lundgren, Sandra Ilar, Peter Viitanen, Vilhelm Blomgren, Hanna Björn, Alida Morberg, Isabelle Grill and Björn Gustafsson. The 6-parter tells the story of Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson who managed to escape prisons and committed robberies all over Europe, who has been referred to as a “celebrity gangster” and inspired the term “Stockholm syndrome.
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Mikael Åkerfeldt to Compose Music for Netflix’s ‘Clark’
Netflix has announced today that songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt, lead vocalist and guitarist of the metal band Opeth, is set to compose the music for the upcoming Netflix original series Clark. The show is co-written and directed by Jonas Åkerlund (Lords of Chaos, Polar) and stars Bill Skarsgård as Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson who has been referred to as a “celebrity gangster” and has given rise to the concept of Stockholm syndrome, managed to escape prisons and committed robberies all over Europe. The 6-parter is based Olofsson’s autobiography Vafan var det som hände and will follow his early years until present day. Åkerlund and Skarsgård are also executive producing the Scandinavian Content Group production with Hans Engholm.